Welcome to BPS Physical Education & Sport Term 3

I hope you are all back into the swing of our third term for the year as this cold weather continues. I'm not sure about you but I long for the sun to shine again. I'm not much for winter with the gloomy skies and cold weather. It was lovely to have some sunshine last Thursday and see all our students outside playing games together and enjoying the sunshine. I hope this term can be a positive one for you and your family as we get closer to some more sunny days ahead!

Important Sporting Dates - Term 3

BPS Grade 3 – 6 House Athletics – Bill Sewart Athletics Track - Thursday 7th August

District Summer Sport - Friday 12th September

District Athletics – Bill Sewart Athletics Track – Friday 29th August

District Summer Sport Grade 5&6 - Friday 12th September

Volunteers: We will require some parent volunteers for the sports below to help our staff with our teams on the day. Staff coaching the various sports will be in touch closer to the date however if you already know you'd love to help out on the date above please email Mrs P.

Tennis Hot Shots - Miss Tainsh and Mr Leibrich
Hooptime Basketball - Mrs Fountain and Mrs P
Volleystars - Mrs Battista
Kanga Cricket 10’s - Miss Morris
Sofcrosse - Miss Lawlor

BPS Grade 3 - 6 House Athletics

Our BPS House Athletics is a day of fun, friendly competition and movement where our student get to apply all their learnings from their Track and Field PE unit in term 2 to a fun sporting event day. A remind our students that the most important part of the day is to do your best and have a go!

This event also doubles as a selection trial for our BPS District Athletics team. Students need to be present and participate at this event to be considered for selection.

Important information

Date: Thursday 7th August

Students to arrive at school by 8.25am and head to classrooms

Buses depart BPS: 8.45am

Buses depart track in the afternoon: 2.40pm

The venue for our BPS House Athletics event is the Bill Sewart Athletics Track, Burwood East.

House sport need to knows: Students to come dressed in their house colours, warm clothes, runners, backpack with recess, lunch, drink bottle, asthma medication (if needed).

House colours - Red (Cook), Blue (Dampier), Green (Sturt), Yellow (Tasman)

Timetable of events

The day is divided into two sessions based on the age a child turns or has already turned in 2025.

Morning session – 9.20am – 11.50am

8, 9, 10 year athletes – track events - 100m, 200m, 80m hurdles (optional), 800m (optional)
11 and 12/13 year athletes – field events (triple jump, shot put, discus, long jump, high jump)

Short lunch break until 12 noon.

Afternoon session – 12 noon – 2.30pm

8, 9, 10 year athletes – field events
11 and 12/13 year athletes – track events
Students will be given a Field Event number to write on their hand on the morning of the event.

We look forward to seeing your child have a fabulous time at our BPS 2025 House Athletics. Thanks for your support of our BPS sporting initiatives to grow and encourage a love of movement in our students.

Volunteers: Thanks so much to our amazing team of volunteers who are helping on the day. We really value your support.

Staff: Thank you to all our awesome BPS staff for your help running events on the day and for making this a special day for our athletes.

Before School Running Club; Keeping our kids moving!

Thanks to our amazing team of volunteers, headed up by our wonderful parent Jen Fuller, for giving our students the opportunity to move every Friday at our Before School Running Club. This is a free program with the motto, "You come, you run!"

If your child is in Grade 1 - 6 and would like to get moving every Friday before school in a fun and inclusive environment please ask for a "Before School Running Club" form at the front office. Every family with a child registering needs to read and fill out this form before their child's first session. Families must complete and hand in the permission form on the morning of their child's first training.

Thank you to our terrific team of volunteers who make this opportunity possible for our students.

Thank you...

Jen Fuller, Shona Rudland, Emily Cheung, Stuart Semple and Will Kwong.

When: Fridays - weather dependent

Where: BPS athletics track

Permission form and information sheet: Please collect from the front office.

Time: 8.10am - 8.40am

What to bring: School bag, water bottle, snack for afterwards, asthma medication (if required).

Ethan's State Hockey Achievement!

Our talented Grade 6 hockey player and goalie, Ethan, spent a lot of his school holidays padded up in hockey gear at the U12s Hockey Victoria Junior State Championships. This is the third year Ethan has been selected to play for the North East Metro Red Devils. Ethan's team played 8 games across two days and went into the Gold Medal match unbeaten. They finished second and came away with a Silver Medal.

Ethan was also also selected for the U14 Indoor Fast Track Academy squad as a field player. The squad is a pathway for State selection later this year and is coached by Australian Indoor Hockey Head Coach Steve Weller.

Congratulations Ethan and well done to your Mum as team manager! An awesome family effort!!

Lachie's Ice Hockey Team Gold Medal at Newcastle Championships

Congratulations to our "Mighty Duck", BPS Grade 5 Ice Hockey player and student, Lachlan, who captained his under 12's ice hockey team at the national club championships in Newcastle, over the school holidays. Lachie and his team played 10 matches over three days and made the grand final and won it 4-1. Lachie score two of his team's four goals and was awarded the "Mighty Duck" award for best team player in the Grand Final. Congratulations to both Mum, Leigh-Ann, and Dad, Jason, who is a keen ice hockey player himself, who was assistant coach of Lachie's team and is an awesome mentor to his son.

BPS included in Carlton Respects 10th Anniversary

To celebrate the 10th year of the Carlton Respects program in schools and AFL game honouring this important cause, BPS was given the opportunity to be part of the Guard of Honour at the round 18 Carlton Respects game at the MCG. BPS is part of this important "Road to Respect" primary education program which our grade 3 - 6 students took part in 2024 and hope to again in 2025. The 2025 Carlton Respects Guernsey, worn by the Carlton players this year, names a list of the primary schools who have been involved in the program, including Blackburn Primary School.

The Carlton Blues gave primary schools involved in the "Road to Respects" program a chance to be a part of the 10th anniversary in a Guard of Honour for the Blues game against Melbourne in Round 18. Mr C gave the opportunity to one of our Grade 6 Blues supporters, Jessie, to be a part of the Guard of Honour for the Carlton players as they ran onto the MCG. On the night, Carlton gave Jessie and her sister, Zoe, and Dad, Jason all a special spot in the Guard of Honour on the coveted MCG turf. The icing on the Blues cake was that Carlton pulled off an eight point win over the Dees.

Carlton Respects Website; explaining the education program.

The Carlton Football Club's Road to Respect program is a digital learning platform aimed at educating students about respect and equality. Carlton Respects is the Carlton Football Club’s flagship community initiative, promoting gender equality for the prevention of violence against women. The platform’s purpose centres around prevention and positive impact, stopping disrespect at the start by having an impact in young people’s lives and aiming to grow a society where violence is eradicated.

Thanks for your time and support of our Physical Education and Sport programs here at BPS.

Yours in partnership,

Merissa Pickford

BPS Physical Education Specialist

BPS Whole School Sports Coordinator

"Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." - John Wooden

Junior School Council